It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.